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Copy-paste betwen diagrams [message #820219]

Tue, 13 March 2012 21:39

Arto Jarvinen

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Registered: May 2010
Location: Sweden

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Hi,

I'm kind of new to this so perhaps this is a noobish question but here goes: I have implemented a model with unsynchronized diagrams. I then create a model and two diagrams. I create one item in each diagram. So far so good: both items show up in the model. I then copy the item in diagram 2 to diagram 1. In diagram 1 i get the correct icon but neither the name of the item or the one attribute I have defined for the item gets copied. The model still shows two items as it should.

This behavior doesn't seem meaningful. Have I missed something or is this a bug? How can I implement a proper copy-paste between diagrams, preferably without diving too deep into the generated Java code. With "proper" I here mean that the two diagrams after the copy-paste shall show an image of the *same* model item. If I delete the item from the model, it should disappear from both diagrams. The diagrams are *views* into the model.

I then probably would like to drag and drop items from the project explorer into the diagrams too so if you have any hints here that would be appreciated too.

Cheers and thanks!

Arto

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